Preview Changes vs Carlton

[CrowBloke]

I legit think that kicking a low flat ball bouncing/tumbling ball into our 50 at high speed might be our best option of attack.

CHAOS-ball.
Didn't PA use that with success against WCE before WCE were garbage, to nullify their talls in defence and give their smalls a better chance?
Or was that Richmond?

 

[GreyCrow]

Long time to wait, for a Curtin call.

 

[Crow_68]

I legit think that kicking a low flat ball bouncing/tumbling ball into our 50 at high speed might be our best option of attack.

Weitering and McNuggets will slaughter Tex and Fog in the air.

 

[CrowBloke]

Nicks: "We still have a lot of confidence in the way we play, the brand of footy we play,” Nicks said.

“We’ve got to improve our skills and improve our forward-centre work." (from AFC site)

Seriously, what the actual ...? I don't even know where to start with that rubbish.

 

[FR0GGY]

Nicks: "We still have a lot of confidence in the way we play, the brand of footy we play,” Nicks said.

“We’ve got to improve our skills and improve our forward-centre work." (from AFC site)

Seriously, what the actual ...? I don't even know where to start with that rubbish.

Yeah but no one else does.

 

[WetCrow1991]

Nicks: "We still have a lot of confidence in the way we play, the brand of footy we play,” Nicks said.

“We’ve got to improve our skills and improve our forward-centre work." (from AFC site)

Seriously, what the actual ...? I don't even know where to start with that rubbish.

Brand of footy? Someone needs to let Nicks know that shit isn't a brand.

 

[cmndstab]

I legit think that kicking a low flat ball bouncing/tumbling ball into our 50 at high speed might be our best option of attack.

If our forwards continue just standing still and demanding the ball be bombed in long, then it probably would be. Maybe it will bounce nicely for Rankine or Walker to work off their opponents and kick a goal or two.

However, instead of that, perhaps they could try, you know, moving a bit? Creating space for each other? Leading? And then our midfields might actually have someone to kick to!

Just a thought.

 

[baldandbroke]

If our forwards continue just standing still and demanding the ball be bombed in long, then it probably would be. Maybe it will bounce nicely for Rankine or Walker to work off their opponents and kick a goal or two.

However, instead of that, perhaps they could try, you know, moving a bit? Creating space for each other? Leading? And then our midfields might actually have someone to kick to!

Just a thought.

Apparently needed Rahilly to remind them constantly of how to play, now he's gone - we are lost?

 

[1970crow]

If our forwards continue just standing still and demanding the ball be bombed in long, then it probably would be. Maybe it will bounce nicely for Rankine or Walker to work off their opponents and kick a goal or two.

However, instead of that, perhaps they could try, you know, moving a bit? Creating space for each other? Leading? And then our midfields might actually have someone to kick to!

Just a thought.

This is deliberate strategy and we used it a fair bit in 21 and 22. It's designed to minimise the danage dine on turnover. A turnover on the 50 is much harder to defend than in a pocket 15m from goal. Don't blame the forwards for remaining deep, that's exactly where they're meant to be.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

You know why we didn’t play last weekend right?

And it gets better, the VFLs third round is this weekend, so the comp started at the same time

The time North beat the Eagles in a prelim final with an extra player on the field is when the SANFL exposed itself as the joke that it is.

 

[Pugsley]

Nicks: "We still have a lot of confidence in the way we play, the brand of footy we play,” Nicks said.

“We’ve got to improve our skills and improve our forward-centre work." (from AFC site)

Seriously, what the actual ...? I don't even know where to start with that rubbish.

The players have switched off. The group hugs are a thing of the past.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

I want to try Keane forward instead of Burgess. Borlase can cover Keane.

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If Keane and Butts can hold on in defence I’d love to see what Murray could do as a contested mark up forward when he returns from injury.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Apparently needed Rahilly to remind them constantly of how to play, now he's gone - we are lost?

Is Rahilly our next senior coach?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

CHAOS-ball.
Didn't PA use that with success against WCE before WCE were garbage, to nullify their talls in defence and give their smalls a better chance?
Or was that Richmond?

Would have been a better option than kicking it to Stewart, Pearce & Lever consistently...

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Nicks: "We still have a lot of confidence in the way we play, the brand of footy we play,” Nicks said.

“We’ve got to improve our skills and improve our forward-centre work." (from AFC site)

Seriously, what the actual ...? I don't even know where to start with that rubbish.

It's absolutely clearly we need rebranding.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Is Rahilly our next senior coach?

More likely the cats.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Hamill is delist able

 

[Ham]

Hamill is delist able

When Milera’s injury was revealed I thought, ‘as long as its not Parnell or Hamill that comes in’. Turns out it was both


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[Ham]

When Milera’s injury was revealed I thought, ‘as long as its not Parnell or Hamill that comes in’. Turns out it was both


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To be fair, i did like Hamill early on, same with Sholl


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[Kane McGoodwin]

When Milera’s injury was revealed I thought, ‘as long as its not Parnell or Hamill that comes in’. Turns out it was both


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When Milera was injured, we should have been looking for a long-term replacement not a stop gap.

 

[Ham]

When Milera was injured, we should have been looking for a long-term replacement not a stop gap.

Absolutely, well said

 

[FullyBigKPro]

When Milera was injured, we should have been looking for a long-term replacement not a stop gap.

Dawson to HBF, bring Dowling in.

 

[skam85]

The sooner we can * off from the sanfl the better. It is ridiculous that we have played 1 game in the 5 rounds since the AFL started.

You know the VFL have only played two games right?

 

[CrowBloke]

It's absolutely clearly we need rebranding.

With respect, I'm not sure what "rebranding" means. (Later, edit: sorry, i get it)

I was remarking on the obvious contradiction between:
"We still have a lot of confidence in the way we play"
and
“We’ve got to improve our skills".

If anything, they play without confidence because their basic skills and execution are poor. It troubles me immensely that Nicks does not see that.

 

[CrowBloke]

However, instead of that, perhaps they could try, you know, moving a bit? Creating space for each other? Leading? And then our midfields might actually have someone to kick to!

I posted after the Geelong loss about how well the Cats forwards created room for Hawkins (and each other) to lead into. They've been well-coached, drilled, to do that.
Nicks needed to school our defenders (or maybe mids running back) to drop into that hole and plug it up, but no.

Stewart took 10 marks that day; I'd say at least 4 were uncontested intercepts because:
--- he reads the ball coming in so well, and
--- nobody picked him up, and
--- our blokes bombed the ball onto his chest!
Those last 2 issues are on Nicks.